This was a difficult film to watch. That's why I gave it a BThis intense drama opens with families being evicted . . . tossed out of their homes by police, bankers and real estate brokers, and the intensity level keeps increasing from there.
The backdrop is the 2008 housing market catastrophe where people . . . kids, men, women, old folks, are being evicted from their homes. The U.S. economy had been built on bad mortgages, and it collapsed. This story, set in 2010, tells the story of how one Florida real estate broker made money while most people lost money.
Dennis Nash, a hard-working and honest man, can't save his family home despite his best efforts. Thrown into the street with all his belongings, by a sleazy real estate shark Mike Carver, Dennis, out of work and luck, is given a unique opportunity . . . to join Carver's crew and put others through the harrowing ordeal done to him in order to earn back a home for his family. Good acting and direction provides the people in the film with realistic character traits that vary from icy complexity to compassion.
I have not seen another film that so effectively shows the human tragedy of home foreclosures. A number of evictions are shown in the film, and a number of different reactions from the people as they realize that they no longer own their own homes. This is hard to watch at times
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